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To: Scot who wrote (44415)	12/30/1998 11:55:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1571896

scot, That overclocking drives the segment, and if they fry it they buy it again and get a better heat sink. The segment has a scarcity of funds large enough to buy a high end computer, but enough to buy an overclocked AMD. So it fries in a month, by then they have the $80 to buy another CPU. The frying does not hit the video card or others parts. So it does very much help AMD sales to that segment via the screwdriver shops. Part of the same goes for many others as long as they tell the client they are hot rodding it and give them a well sinked cooler the client will take the shot. They know from carry over from cars that when you overstress something you increase failures, so they take the risk/benefit and like it as they are saving $500 or so. Bill